33rd HKIFF

第三十三屆香港國際電影節

The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival

MY WATCH LIST

Blow Up 春光乍洩 - Michelangelo Antonioni

Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country 緬甸起義－看不到的真相 - Anders Ostergaard

Buy a Suit 我不買西裝 - Ichikawa Jun

Chandni Chowk to China 從印度到中國 - Nikhil Advani

Che 捷古華拉 - Steven Soderbergh

The Country Teacher 鄉村有機老師 - Bohdan Slama

Cry Me a River 河上的愛情 - Jia Zhangke

The Desert Within荒漠裡的人 - Rodrigo Pla

Ghajini 凶心人在寶萊塢 - A.R Murugados

The Girl from Monaco摩納哥迷湯 - Anne Fontaine

Hunger大絕食 - Steve McQueen

Lake Tahoe 墨西哥幾點 - Fernando Eimbcke

Liverpool利物浦 - Lisandro Alonso

Maradona by Kusturica 踢爆馬勒當拿 - Emir Kusturica

Michelangelo Antonioni Shorts Programme III安東尼奧尼短片集（三） - Michelangelo Antonioni

Red Desert赤色沙漠 - Michelangelo Antonioni

Still Walking橫山家之味 - Kore-eda Hirokazu

Tears For Sale 魔幻女兒國 - Uros Stojanovic

Unmade Beds迷樂英倫 - Alexis Dos Santos

World Animation世界動畫精選 - Franck Dion, Murata Tomoyasu, Kai Lappalainen, Jean-Francois Levesque, Ami Lindholm, Park Jae-ok, Konstantin Bronzit

A showflat

Illegal Structure – A site-specific architectural installation exhibition by William Lim @ Tang Contemporary Art - Hong Kong


‘Showflat’ It is a typical apartment setting in an extreme compact way. The color scheme is mainly white, three levels with a couch sitting on top of a shelf with very little headroom, and a flat screen TV mounting on wall right in front of the couch. It reminds me of the overly crowded living setting we have in our daily life. It challenges the real estate developers’ build up congestion and the lack of human touch.

The exhibition Whispers of Blended Shadows: The Art of Jerry Uelsmann

Another great afternoon during the trip in Taipei, visit to Jerry N. Uelsmann's great photography works at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Jerry Uelsmann is a radical surrealist photographer who famed in the US in 1960s. He is well known as “image magician” and “black and white alchemist”. His ideas were fermenting during his study life in university. That one should not just photograph the object themselves, but should show the world beyond the objects was particularly influential to him.

Uelsmann proposed the concept of “post-visualization” in 1965, which creating a photographic aesthetic that applies after the camera images are taken. Use mainly traditional darkroom techniques, he uses several enlargers to combine different negatives film into a single picture by means of masking light and partial exposure, also using exquisite skill to create an artistic image out of photo montage in a hand-made ways. He discovers the mystery and surprise of recreating images during this process, freeing photography from the shackles of “representation of the real world”.

"Untitled" (1992), This particular Uelsmann's piece come with some deep thoughts and meanings. The top part of the picture shown a dry old tree with no leaves, representing the reality; the lower part represent the reflection of the reality, some sort of idealism, showing the same place with vegetated and lively landscape.

Uelsmann’s works stimulate my imagination and amazement while enter to strange space and atmosphere of the visuals.

Pope of Pop — Andy Warhol World Tour Exhibition (Taipei)

http://www.mediasphere.com.tw/andy-warhol/index.htm




Pop-art pope artist meets traditional historical venue in Taipei.

The exhibition holds at National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial hall (中正記念堂). Andy Warhol’s sketches, paintings, silk-screen print on shirts and photographic displayed, sorted chronologically with Warhol’s works. A large size presentation board showing Warhol’s timeline right in middle of exhibition hall, this particularly interesting arrangement was to guide the attendee to the renounced artist comprehensive life. Not just focus to his signature art works.

The entire guided tour takes about 45 minutes, described Andy Warhol’s life dedication to the art. Unlike the other exhibition I attend in the past, the Taiwanese attendee gives active feedback. The interaction between tour and each attendee is more or less like a focus group discussion, create an excellent atmosphere.